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ART RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS


2025 · Award grant Pilar Juncosa at Fundació Miró MallorcaLithograph project in summer 2025
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2025 · EU Grant EYE with ZK/U BerlinSix-months artistic collaboration
Berlin, Germany

2024 · Fresh Artist in Residence at Urban Nation BerlinOne-year art and research project on speculative urban spaces and experimental drawing
Berlin, Germany

2023 · Contested Territories Artist in ResidenceEU Horizon 2020 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Grants, in collaboration with FAU Santiago de Chile
Atacama Desert, Chile

2018 · FB AIR Facebook Artist in ResidenceSite specific art installation on waste management Facebook HQ
San Francisco, USA

2017 · Grant trainee at SOMOne-year collaboration with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill international architecture studio
San Francisco, USA


EXHIBITIONS 


2024/2025 · The Lava Trails’ AtlasPost-residency group exhibition Unsupervised Fresh A.I.R.
Berlin, Germany

2024/2025 · Baucis SeriesAnonymous Drawings group exhibition curated by Anke Becker
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Kunsthaus, Erfurt, Germany
Hyper Cultural Passengers, Hamburg, Germany

2023 · Consumption Linee for Socle du Monde Art FestivalConceptualization for site specific installation on the façade of HEART Museum, curated by Simon Njami and Tijs Visser
Herning, Denmark

2022 · Invisible DriftsUrban scale art installation at MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology supported by Spanish Embassy in Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal

2022 · Made inFable a different world group exhibition curated by Blanca de la Torre with the support of AECID, itinerant through Spanish Cultural Centers in South and Central America
Lima, Peru; San Jose, Costa Rica; San Salvador, El Salvador; Quito, Ecuador; Montevideo, Uruguay

2019 · Only Geology LastsConcept design for site specific art installation at Cultural Center Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem
Kuwait, Kuwait

2019 · Memory Transfer LaboratorySite specific art installation for Museum for Rural Life
L’Espluga de Francolí, Spain

2017 · UtopiasSolo exhibtion at private gallery curated by Chris DeHenzel
Oakland, USA

2016 · AbundanciaBasurama solo exhibiton at Moisés Pérez Albéniz Art Gallery Madrid, Spain

2016 · AgostamientoUrban project research and site specific installation Cultural Center Matadero Madrid and Ensanche Vallecas
Madrid, Spain


RESEARCH WORKS AND SEMINARS


2025 · Understanding CapitalismSeminar by the Autonomous University of Political Education Berlin, Germany

2023 · Calx hybrĭdaInterdisciplinary research and drawing project in collaboration with Facultad de Bellas Artes at UCM, tutor Santiago Morilla
Madrid, Spain

2020 · Postnature and Contemporary CreationSeminar by The Institute for Postnatural Studies
Madrid, Spain

2017 · Minimum dwellingResearch on domestic spaces in the contemporary city in collaboration with SOM San Francisco and University of Alcalá de Henares UAH
San Francisco, USA

2015 · Fractal StructuresResearch applied from natural structures to architectural and urban designs in collaboration with UAH, tutor Rosa Cervera
Alcalá de Henares, Spain


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


2025/now · ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und UrbanistikArtistic ongoing collaboration
Berlin, Germany

2016/2024 · Basurama CollectivePart of the art and architecture collective from 2018 to 2024, with an initial collaboration internship in 2016
Madrid, Spain


SELECTED PROJECTS


2026 · Learning from DesertsArt project on bedouin communities in collaboration with ZK/U, curator Hadas Kedar and Kulturstiftung des Bundes KSB
Berlin, Germany

2026 · Build, Care, Repair Site specific installation, participatory project developed in collaboration with Floating University Berlin
Berlin, Germany

2025 · ClimArt Site specific art installations on urban climate resilience in collaboration with ZK/U, Stefan Koderisch and BMUV
Berlin, Germany
2025 · Post-Human TarotLithograph project thanks to the award grant Pilar Juncosa Fundació Miró Mallorca edited at Kulturwerk des bbk
Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Berlin, Germany

2025 · Baucis SeriesLithograph project developed thanks to the award grant Pilar Juncosa at Fundació Miró Mallorca graphic workshops
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2024 · The Lava Trails’ AtlasTextile and drawing art project on speculative urban spaces based on children’s realm in the framework of Fresh AIR
Berlin, Germany

2023 · Future is electric blue, sky-light blueResearch on the extractivist infrastructures of the Atacama Desert in the framework of Contested Territories AIR
Atacama Desert, Chile

2023 · Calx hybrĭdaInterdisciplinary research and drawing project on interspecies’ overlapping narratives in collaboration with UCM
Madrid, Spain

2022 · Life PACTCo-lead for Madrid branch on EU project LIFE for the climate transition of schools through participatory art installations in collaboration with Municipality of Madrid
Madrid, Spain

2022 · Re-CreaArt and urban participatory installations at CEIP Francisco de Quevedo with the support of Montemadrid FoundationLeganés, Spain

2017/2021 · ReLabs · Reuse Waste LaboratoryArt project for repurposing urban furniture in collaboration with Municipality of Madrid and the Faculty of Architecture Madrid ETSAM supported by Carasso Foundation
Madrid, Spain

2021 · Patios SilvestresOn school participatory installations for climate transition through art and nature based solutions, collaboration with Municipality of Madridsupported by Carasso Foundation
Madrid, Spain

2021 · Upcycling Hill Design of site specific landscape and public space using upcycled materials at VallecasLa Gavia public park
Madrid, Spain

2020 · Less consumerist leisureVisual artwork series for Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum Madrid, Spain

2018 · Andalusi WasserspieleArt and urban installation in Tempelhofer Feld in collaboration with raumlabor and Floating University Berlin
Berlin, Germany

2017 · Archipiélago OníricoMaster Thesis in Architecture and Urban Planning, tutors R. Hernando, A. Rodríguez, University of Alcalá de Henares UAH Alcalá de Henares, Spain

2016 · Christmas in REConcept design for three site specific art installations on the façades of CaixaForum Cultural Centers in Spain
Madrid, Barcelona and Zaragoza, Spain


ACADEMIC TRAINING


2021/2023 · Master degree in Contemporary Art
Research and CreationUniversity Complutense of Madrid UCM
Madrid, Spain

2015/2017 · Master degree in Architecture and Urban PlanningUniversity of Alcalá de Henares UAH
Madrid, Spain

2013/2014 · Architektur und Städtebau THM Erasmus ExchangeTechnische Hochschule Mittelhessen THM
Gießen, Germany

2010/15 · Bachelor degree in Architecture and Urban PlanningUniversity of Alcalá de Henares UAH
Madrid, Spain



Nerea Sanz Ferrer (1992) is an architect, visual artist and researcher working around space and graphic language.

Through her passion and academic formation on architecture, urban planning and contemporary art, she built her research and practice in the overlaps of these fields. Her work explores concepts such as post-nature or the territories and atmospheres of the Anthropocene, through de-centralized narratives and community driven methodologies. She focuses her practice on the interstices and complexities of speculative futures.

Currently based between Berlin and Madrid, her practice has spanned internationally, developing projects and art residences in various countries such as Chile, USA, Portugal, Denmark, Kuwait, Germany or Spain.

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